{"id":183902,"date":"2026-02-28T02:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T02:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/183902\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T02:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T02:24:08","slug":"man-gets-life-without-parole-for-killing-two-men-including-his-cousin-in-fort-worth-alley-prosecutors-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/183902\/","title":{"rendered":"Man gets life without parole for killing two men, including his cousin, in Fort Worth alley, prosecutors say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/news\/2-seriously-injured-in-northwest-fort-worth-shooting\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">gunned down two men in a Fort Worth alley in 2024<\/a> will spend the rest of his life in prison after a Tarrant County jury found him guilty of capital murder, according to the Tarrant County District Attorney&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors said Alfredo Cantu Martinez, 45, received an automatic life\u2011without\u2011parole sentence in connection with the April 23, 2024, shooting deaths of Michael Cantu, 24, and Martin Hernandez Jr., 26.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting happened in an alley behind a home in the 2400 block of Irion Avenue near Northeast 28th Street, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Cousins arrive from Dallas<\/p>\n<p>According to investigators, Hernandez picked up Martinez \u2013 his cousin \u2013 in Dallas earlier that day, and the two drove to Fort Worth to visit several people, including Cantu.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors said Martinez, Cantu and Hernandez walked into the alley while Cantu&#8217;s girlfriend waited in a nearby car with the hood up. Within moments, she heard gunfire and found the two men wounded, authorities said. She called 911.<\/p>\n<p>Victims found, suspect flees<\/p>\n<p>Police said Cantu was shot in the chest and died at the scene. Hernandez, who had been shot multiple times, was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>Officers responding to the shooting saw Martinez running from the area and took him into custody without incident, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who gunned down two men in a Fort Worth alley in 2024 will spend the rest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,430,27],"class_list":["post-183902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-north-texas","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}